Cameron, Sharon
Summary: Nadia lives in the city of Canaan, where life is safe and structured, hemmed in by white stone walls and no memory of what came before. But every twelve years the city descends into the bloody chaos of the Forgetting, a day of no consequences and no remorse, when each person's memories--of parents, children, love, life, and self--are lost and forgotten. Unless they have been written. In Canaan,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC CAMCameron, Sharon
Summary: Canaan is a quiet city on an idyllic world, hemmed in by high walls, but every twelve years the town breaks out in a chaos of bloody violence, after which all the people undergo the Forgetting, in which they are left without any trace of memory of themselves, their families, or their lives--but somehow seventeen-year-old Nadia has never forgotten, and she is determined to find out what causes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: YA FIC CAMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA SF Cameron 2016Beckerman, Hannah
Summary: "When Anna Bradshaw wakes up in a hospital bed in London, she remembers nothing, not even her loving husband, Stephen. The doctors say her amnesia is to be expected, but Anna feels cut adrift from her entire life. In Bristol, Livvy Nicholson is newly married to Dominic and eager to get back to work after six months' maternity leave. But when Dominic's estranged mother appears, making a series...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BECSavile, Steven.
Summary: The death of children's writer Hoke Berglund draws Jon Sieber into a world filled with Hoke's creations, including the vile Mr. Self Affliction who is the cruel master of this place. In a world where angels are beautiful women and the by-blows of nightmares people the mythical Forgetting Wood, Jon, heir apparent to all that Hoke created, falls for Beglund's daughter but cannot overlook her ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crossroad Press 2010
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Myracle, Lauren
Summary: With her wishing day approaching, Darya wants to forget the tradition exists, but when painful memories resurface, she realizes the decision of what to wish for, or what not to wish for, is one of the most important choices of her life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MYRSoli, Tatjana.
Summary: Abandoning the world of her literary education to move to her husband's California citrus ranch, Claire Nagy forges an all-consuming bond with her family's land that eventually supersedes her relationships with her husband and children.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOLSoli, Tatjana.
Summary: From Tatjana Soli, New York Times bestselling author of The Lotus Eaters, comes a breathtaking novel about the members of a California ranching family, their complicated matriarch, and the enigmatic caretaker who may destroy them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2012
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Guskin, Sharon
Summary: "Noah wants to go home. A seemingly easy request from most four year olds. But as Noah's single-mother, Janie, knows, nothing with Noah is ever easy. One day the pre-school office calls and says Janie needs to come in to talk about Noah, and no, not later, now - and life as she knows it stops. For Jerome Anderson, life as he knows it has stopped. A deadly diagnosis has made him realize he is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUSCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Guskin 2016Burley, John
Summary: A female psychiatrist at a state mental hospital finds herself at the center of a shadowy conspiracy in this dark and twisting tale of psychological suspense. Menaker State Hospital is a curse, a refuge, a prison, a necessity, a nightmare, a salvation. When Dr. Lise Shields arrived at the correctional psychiatric facility five years ago, she was warned that many of its patients-committed by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BURBantock, Nick.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BANRenner, James
Summary: Jack Felter, a history teacher, returns home to bucolic Franklin Mills, Ohio, to care for his father, a retired pilot who suffers from dementia and is quickly losing his memory. Jack would love to forget about Franklin Mills, and about Sam, the girl he fell in love with, who ran off with his best friend, Tony. Except Tony has gone missing. Soon Jack is pulled into the search for Tony, but the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RENRose, Caroline
Contents: Love/Lover/Friend -- Rebirth -- Miami -- Better than gold -- Everywhere I go I bring the rain -- The doldrums -- The kiss -- Cornbread -- Stockholm syndrome -- Tell me what you want -- Florida room -- Love song for myself -- Jill says -- Where do I go from here?.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ROSRemember Remember (Musical group)
Contents: Blabbermouth -- La Mayo -- Magnets -- Old ways -- Pterodactyl -- Why you got a blue face? -- Purple phase -- Frozen frenzy
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rock Records
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK REMKrieger, Allegra
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK KRIHarmel, Kristin
Summary: In this heartwarming story of love, family and baked goods, bakery owner Hope McKenna-Smith, the divorced mother of a surly preteen girl, is summoned by her aging grandmother who, ready to reveal the secret she has kept for 70 years, sends her on a journey across the world that will forever change her life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2012
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLOSmall, Scott A.
Summary: "A renowned neurologist explains why our routine forgetting-of names, dates, even house keys-is not a brain failure but actually, when combined with memory, one of the mind's most beneficial functions. Who wouldn't want a better memory? Dr. Scott Small has dedicated his career to understanding why memory forsakes us. As director of the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at Columbia University,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.1 SMAGenova, Lisa
Summary: The Harvard-trained neuroscientist presents an exploration of the intricacies of human memory that distinguishes between normal and concerning memory loss while explaining the profound roles of sleep, stress, and other contributing influences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.1 GENCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.1 GENSummary: Why was Islamic philosophy, once the epitome of Arab learning, eventually rejected by Muslims? And why, after assimilating it, did Europeans distance themselves from its formulators? This program seeks to understand the religious climate of the late Middle Ages, in which universities and madrassas became centers of power and models for evolving sociopolitical systems. The potentially heretical...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Riess, Jana.
Contents: Choosing practices -- Fasting in the desert -- Meeting Jesus in the kitchen, or not -- Lectio divination -- Nixing shoppertainment -- Centering prayer, er, the Jesus prayer ... Look! A squirrel! -- Unorthodox Sabbath -- Thanksgiving every day -- Benedictine hospitality -- What would Jesus eat? -- Seven ... five ... three times a day will I praise you -- Generosity -- Practice makes imperfect.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Paraclete Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248.4 RIEKundera, Milan.
Summary: The only authorized translation of the bestselling masterpiece by one of the greatest authors of our time, "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" is part fairy tale, part literary criticism, part political tract, part musicology, and part autobiography.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KUNFreyd, Jennifer J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8582 FREDower, John W.
Summary: A profound look at American and Japanese perceptions - past and present - of key moments in their shared history. An incisive investigation of the problems of public history and its role in a modern democracy, these essays are essential reading for anyone interested in postwar U.S.-Japan relations, as well as the broader discipline of history.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New Press 2012